Chapter 175 - Douluo: Emerald Poison Emperor [175]
The concept of spirituality is abstract, and the Cheat Ability: High Metal Awareness is even more abstract—a concept within a concept. After all of his research, Chen Ming still hasn't fully understood it; all he can say is that he has barely scratched the surface.
Although it was Chen Ming's first time encountering someone's will invading his spiritual sea, he felt no fear in this situation.
As the divine will of the Asura God invaded, Chen Ming began to perceive its weight and finally gained some insight into the essence of his cheat ability.
It was a manifestation of his soul's sublimation during his transmigration—a reflection of his innate divinity and authority.
Though his physical body was mortal, his essence was something far greater. He was inherently born to master spirituality, inspiration, and the soul. Even without divine power, he still wielded divine authority.
He was the master of souls, the sole king, and the deity of the spiritual world.
Chen Ming extended his hand and lightly clenched it. The divine will of the Asura God was bound by an invisible force, and then it began to shatter inch by inch, breaking down into its most basic components.
Slaughter, judgment, malice, spirit, death—these were its powers.
Soul energy, celestial spiritual energy, the aura of slaughter—all of it disassembled like a slaughtered pig on a butcher's table. Chen Ming easily dismantled the Asura God's divine will, reducing it to its most primitive energies. Under his suppression, the Asura God's divine will had no chance of escape, not even the ability to self-destruct.
Faced with inevitable obliteration, the Asura God's will had no choice but to erase all information within this fragment of divine will before its complete disintegration. However, before vanishing, it left behind a threatening declaration for Chen Ming:
["Mortal, you have thoroughly angered the King of the Divine Realm!"]
"King of the Divine Realm, my foot."
After completely breaking down the Asura God's divine will into various foundational materials, Chen Ming scoffed dismissively.
If the scene just now were shown to the other four God-Kings of the Divine Realm, who knew if they might gang up on the Asura God together?
The Douluo Divine Realm wasn't ruled by the Asura God alone. He was merely the God of Enforcement, not the leader of the Divine Realm. Why did he act as if he were its supreme ruler?
...
At that moment in the Divine Realm, the Asura God suddenly raised his head upon sensing that his fragment of divine will in the mortal world had disappeared. His eyes flashed red as immense killing intent and malice surged from within his body.
Along with this surge, there was also a large amount of divine power that did not belong to the Asura God. If any of the other God Kings of the Divine Realm were present, they would easily recognize the sources of this divine power—it originated from other deities.
The Rakshasa God, the Angel God, and the Sea God—these were the three ascended deities of the Douluo World. Yet, traces of their divine power now resided within the Asura God.
Although the Asura God had not fully refined and absorbed these powers, there was no doubt that some kind of connection had already formed between him and these divine energies. Among them, the power belonging to the Rakshasa God had already been mostly mastered by him.
Sensing his unstable aura, the Asura God's eyes flashed red once more, and thick Asura divine power radiated outward, forcibly suppressing these foreign divine energies back into his body.
Afterward, the Asura God cast a wary glance toward the Divine Realm's central hub. Only after confirming that the God of Destruction hadn't noticed anything unusual did he breathe a sigh of relief. Quietly, he split off another fragment of his divine will and sent it back to the Douluo World through the arrangements he had left behind.
This fragment of divine will had a clear purpose: to investigate the disappearance of the previous fragment. However, just as the Asura God's divine will attempted to use the backdoors he had left in Douluo World's consciousness, it was intercepted by a fragment of divine will left by the Goddess of Life.
"Asura, what are you trying to do?"
The Goddess of Life's divine will intercepted the Asura God's rogue fragment and questioned him with curiosity.
"I... I just wanted to check on my inheritance."
Upon realizing that his divine will had been intercepted by the Goddess of Life, the Asura God's actual body in the Divine Realm turned pale. If not for his extraordinary nature as a deity, he might have been drenched in cold sweat by now.
"Asura, I can understand your concern. But as the God of Enforcement in the Divine Realm, you should abide by the rules of the Divine Realm."
The Goddess of Life sighed helplessly and admonished the fragment of the Asura God's divine will.
"Deities of the Divine Realm are not allowed to interfere arbitrarily in the mortal world. Even for deities who ascend from native worlds, it is forbidden to casually use divine power to alter the rules of the mortal world."
"Asura, you negotiated with the Rakshasa God for a spot and left your inheritance in the Rakshasa God's domain. If you wish to monitor your inheritance, you should rely on the fragment of divine will already left there, not send additional fragments or divine power to the mortal world."
As someone who had been friends with the Asura God for tens of thousands of years, the Goddess of Life knew that secretly sending divine will to the mortal world was against the rules. However, out of their long-standing relationship, she assumed the Asura God was merely overly anxious about his inheritance.
"Take it back. As the God of Enforcement, you shouldn't be making such mistakes."
"Alright, Life."
Seeing that the Goddess of Life didn't seem to have noticed anything unusual, the Asura God's divine will quickly expressed gratitude and returned to his main body.
Although he was still concerned about why his fragment of divine will, which was meant to modify the Angel God's divine position, had disappeared, he dared not act rashly while the Goddess of Life remained attentive to the Douluo World.
The Divine Realm's central hub was managed in rotation by the five God-Kings, and it was currently under the jurisdiction of the God of Destruction.
The God of Destruction and the Goddess of Life shared a profound connection with the Divine Realm and could not leave it. Over the years, the God of Destruction had been tirelessly working to strengthen the Divine Realm, and after taking control of the central hub, he bore almost the entire burden of the Divine Realm on his own.
The reason the Asura God dared to interfere was that the God of Destruction was too occupied. One God King carrying the workload of four others left little room to monitor the Douluo World. Even if the Douluo World was special and important, the God of Destruction likely wouldn't have the energy to investigate further.
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What the Asura God hadn't anticipated, however, was the Goddess of Life's sudden interest in the Douluo World.
Life and Destruction were two sides of the same coin, their relationship the closest in the Divine Realm. What the Goddess of Life saw, the God of Destruction would see as well. In other words, anything the Goddess of Life paid attention to would inevitably draw the attention of the God of Destruction.
Unlike the busy God of Destruction, the Goddess of Life had plenty of free time and boundless energy. If she focused on the Douluo World, she would undoubtedly uncover details even the God of Destruction might overlook.
Could it be that Destruction had discovered something in the Douluo World?
Sitting in his palace, the Asura God retrieved a blood-stained helmet from somewhere. He poured divine power into it—power that did not belong to him.
This was not his divine power but the power of the Rakshasa God. Anyone familiar with the Rakshasa God would instantly recognize the blood-stained helmet.
It was a piece of the Rakshasa God's divine armor, tainted with her resentment and unwillingness, containing her divine position and power.
Unquestionably, without the knowledge of the other deities in the Divine Realm, the Rakshasa God, once a first-tier deity, had fallen silently at the hands of the Asura God.